Legal Jobs in England

Legal
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Legal in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Legal over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 76 124
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +23
Permanent jobs citing Legal 3,137 3,393 4,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.45% 4.03% 3.13%
As % of the General category 5.97% 5.95% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,645 1,406 1,797
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All General Skills
England

Legal is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 52,555 57,045 91,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 57.76% 67.80% 65.08%
Number of salaries quoted 36,197 31,816 45,649
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,282 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Legal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Legal as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Legal in England

Legal
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Legal in England.

Salary trend for Legal in England

Legal
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Legal in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Legal in England

Legal
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Legal within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +22 1,027 £65,000 - 714
North of England +79 692 £45,000 -5.26% 292
South East -37 552 £37,500 -28.57% 280
Midlands +28 434 £50,000 -4.76% 184
North West +87 398 £45,000 -7.22% 180
West Midlands +11 280 £50,000 -4.76% 110
South West -22 240 £45,000 -5.26% 177
Yorkshire +50 210 £34,000 -24.44% 81
East of England -39 168 £50,000 -9.09% 119
East Midlands +56 154 £45,000 +24.14% 73
North East +45 84 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Legal
UK

Legal
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 180 (5.74%) SharePoint
2 98 (3.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 79 (2.52%) SAS
4 27 (0.86%) CMS
5 12 (0.38%) IIS
6 10 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.29%) Confluence
8 6 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.19%) WordPress
9 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
10 4 (0.13%) Apache
10 4 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
11 2 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.064%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.064%) Drupal
11 2 (0.064%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.064%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.064%) Luigi
11 2 (0.064%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 388 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 368 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (2.45%) AutoCAD
5 26 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 24 (0.77%) Revit
8 17 (0.54%) SPSS
9 15 (0.48%) MS Visio
10 9 (0.29%) Simulink
11 7 (0.22%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 5 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.096%) ProjectWise
14 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.064%) FileZilla
15 1 (0.032%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.032%) InVision
15 1 (0.032%) Sketch
15 1 (0.032%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 35 (1.12%) Elite 3E
2 30 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.38%) Relativity
3 12 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.35%) iTrent
4 11 (0.35%) ResourceLink
5 10 (0.32%) Infor SunSystems
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.29%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
7 8 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.22%) BPCS
8 7 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
9 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
10 5 (0.16%) Primavera
10 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 379 (12.08%) Azure
2 252 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
3 220 (7.01%) Power Platform
4 125 (3.98%) Entra ID
5 116 (3.70%) AWS
6 105 (3.35%) SaaS
7 57 (1.82%) GCP
8 56 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (1.56%) PowerApps
10 48 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 24 (0.77%) OneDrive
13 15 (0.48%) PaaS
13 15 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (0.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (0.41%) OCI
15 12 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (0.35%) Dropbox
16 11 (0.35%) Figma
17 10 (0.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.57%) Firewall
2 49 (1.56%) Internet
3 48 (1.53%) WAN
4 45 (1.43%) LAN
5 38 (1.21%) Wireless
6 30 (0.96%) Intranet
7 25 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 25 (0.80%) SAN
7 25 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.77%) DHCP
8 24 (0.77%) DNS
9 20 (0.64%) VPN
10 18 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.41%) Network Security
11 13 (0.41%) SNMP
12 11 (0.35%) VoIP
12 11 (0.35%) WebEx
13 10 (0.32%) OSPF
13 10 (0.32%) SSL
13 10 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (5.58%) Power BI
2 134 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 52 (1.66%) Relational Database
4 51 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (1.18%) MySQL
6 36 (1.15%) Tableau
7 33 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (0.96%) Data Lake
9 29 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (0.80%) Big Data
11 21 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
11 21 (0.67%) EDRMS
12 20 (0.64%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.61%) DB2
14 18 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.51%) Metadata
17 14 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (0.45%) EDMS
18 13 (0.41%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 92 (2.93%) JIRA
2 54 (1.72%) Git
3 19 (0.61%) Visual Studio
4 13 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 12 (0.38%) GitLab
6 8 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.26%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.19%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.16%) fastlane
9 5 (0.16%) Selenium
9 5 (0.16%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.13%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.096%) FitNesse
11 3 (0.096%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.096%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.096%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,244 (39.66%) Finance
2 1,089 (34.71%) Social Skills
3 571 (18.20%) Law
4 515 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
5 468 (14.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 337 (10.74%) Banking
7 312 (9.95%) Retail
8 230 (7.33%) Marketing
9 127 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 106 (3.38%) Manufacturing
11 89 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
12 80 (2.55%) Local Government
13 78 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 75 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 65 (2.07%) Publishing
16 43 (1.37%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.28%) Automotive
17 40 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
18 39 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 716 (22.82%) Analyst
2 501 (15.97%) Senior
3 236 (7.52%) Lead
4 192 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
5 180 (5.74%) Developer
6 145 (4.62%) Project Manager
7 103 (3.28%) Business Analyst
8 102 (3.25%) IT Support
9 96 (3.06%) Architect
10 94 (3.00%) Financial Analyst
11 90 (2.87%) IT Manager
12 84 (2.68%) Senior Manager
13 81 (2.58%) Coordinator
14 77 (2.45%) Software Engineer
15 68 (2.17%) Support Analyst
16 67 (2.14%) Governance Analyst
17 65 (2.07%) IT Analyst
17 65 (2.07%) Systems Analyst
18 64 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
19 59 (1.88%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (3.67%) .NET
2 77 (2.45%) HTML
3 68 (2.17%) CSS
4 48 (1.53%) React
5 41 (1.31%) ASP.NET
6 40 (1.28%) XML
7 39 (1.24%) JSON
8 29 (0.92%) .NET Framework
8 29 (0.92%) AngularJS
9 27 (0.86%) Web Services
10 26 (0.83%) REST
11 17 (0.54%) Node.js
12 16 (0.51%) .NET Core
12 16 (0.51%) Blazor
12 16 (0.51%) PySpark
13 13 (0.41%) RESTful
13 13 (0.41%) SOAP
13 13 (0.41%) Swagger
13 13 (0.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 12 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 296 (9.44%) Management Information System
2 116 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 92 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 88 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 73 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 70 (2.23%) Housing Association
7 69 (2.20%) Credit Risk
8 65 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 63 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 53 (1.69%) Cloud Native
12 48 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 39 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 36 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 31 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
16 28 (0.89%) Life Science
17 26 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
17 26 (0.83%) Social Media
18 24 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 232 (7.40%) Windows
2 94 (3.00%) Windows 10
3 67 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.53%) Android
5 44 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.73%) Linux
7 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (0.26%) VMS
9 8 (0.26%) Windows 8
10 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.064%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Robot Operating System
13 1 (0.032%) Unix
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (21.07%) Agile
2 577 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
3 380 (12.11%) Risk Management
4 374 (11.92%) Coaching
5 347 (11.06%) Project Management
6 330 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 309 (9.85%) Information Security
8 299 (9.53%) Decision-Making
9 290 (9.24%) Customer Service
10 284 (9.05%) Process Improvement
11 273 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
12 272 (8.67%) Data Management
13 271 (8.64%) Data Protection
14 259 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
14 259 (8.26%) Time Management
15 256 (8.16%) Roadmaps
16 250 (7.97%) Mentoring
17 248 (7.91%) ITIL
18 246 (7.84%) Analytics
19 206 (6.57%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 347 (11.06%) SQL
2 181 (5.77%) Python
3 112 (3.57%) C#
4 110 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 87 (2.77%) PowerShell
6 58 (1.85%) Java
7 57 (1.82%) TypeScript
8 43 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 27 (0.86%) Go
10 26 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 19 (0.61%) PHP
11 19 (0.61%) VB.NET
12 17 (0.54%) RPG
13 16 (0.51%) C
13 16 (0.51%) C++
14 14 (0.45%) R
15 13 (0.41%) MATLAB
16 11 (0.35%) VB
17 9 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 703 (22.41%) Degree
2 112 (3.57%) HNC
3 83 (2.65%) CISSP
4 81 (2.58%) Master's Degree
5 78 (2.49%) HND
6 54 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (1.63%) Security Cleared
8 48 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 45 (1.43%) APMG
10 38 (1.21%) CISM
10 38 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.08%) CISA
12 29 (0.92%) ACCA
13 22 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.70%) MBA
14 20 (0.64%) MRICS
15 19 (0.61%) Azure Certification
15 19 (0.61%) CIMA
16 18 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
17 17 (0.54%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (8.67%) GDPR
2 246 (7.84%) QA
3 154 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 57 (1.82%) NIST
6 55 (1.75%) SLA
7 48 (1.53%) IFRS
8 45 (1.43%) PMO
9 39 (1.24%) GRC
10 36 (1.15%) IFRS 9
11 33 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
12 32 (1.02%) ISO 9001
13 29 (0.92%) Accessibility
14 26 (0.83%) NEBOSH
15 25 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 23 (0.73%) ISO 22301
17 18 (0.57%) PCI DSS
18 13 (0.41%) ISO 14001
19 12 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
20 11 (0.35%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 204 (6.50%) Active Directory
2 46 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (1.43%) RACF
4 37 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.89%) Firmware
6 23 (0.73%) Docker
7 19 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.26%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.16%) XenApp
12 4 (0.13%) vSphere
13 3 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.096%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 2 (0.064%) pfSense
15 1 (0.032%) LXC
15 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 33 (1.05%) SCCM
2 27 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 27 (0.86%) SCOM
3 24 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.51%) Functional Safety
4 16 (0.51%) Terraform
5 12 (0.38%) Ansible
5 12 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.22%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.19%) QRadar
8 5 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.16%) vRealize
9 3 (0.096%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.096%) Control-M
9 3 (0.096%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.096%) Puppet
10 2 (0.064%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.064%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.064%) Nessus
Vendors
1 804 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 126 (4.02%) SAP
3 87 (2.77%) iManage
4 72 (2.30%) Citrix
5 69 (2.20%) VMware
6 68 (2.17%) Oracle
7 51 (1.63%) Cisco
8 50 (1.59%) Google
8 50 (1.59%) IBM
9 45 (1.43%) CyberArk
10 38 (1.21%) Intapp
11 37 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 36 (1.15%) Databricks
13 32 (1.02%) HP
14 30 (0.96%) Veeam
15 29 (0.92%) Aderant
16 26 (0.83%) Salesforce
17 25 (0.80%) NCR
18 21 (0.67%) OpenAI
19 18 (0.57%) Sage